Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Integrity at a Crossroads: Protecting U.S. Science From the Next Trump
How can we ensure that, when power shifts again, the U.S. government remains fundamentally grounded in empirical reality and committed to pursuing policies that are informed by the best available science?
Overconsumption or a Move Towards Minimalism?
(Over)consumption, climate change and working from home. These are a few of the concerns at the forefront of consumers’ minds and three […]
Webinar: Research Ethics in Practice
Ethical research involves much more than a pre-study review or forms to explain how the study adheres to the institution’s rules about […]
Journalism vs. Ethnography: Checking the Facts
While journalism might at times be seen as a sort of ‘ethnography lite,’ when it comes to checking out the field reporter’s facts it’s much more of a heavy hitter.
Why Social Science? With Prevalent Misogyny, Women Still Don’t ‘Rule’ Equally to Men
Fifty years after Ruth Bader Ginsberg worked to secure constitutional equality for women, misogyny is still alive and well in the American […]
Academic Freedom Includes the Responsibility to Act Ethically
Academic freedom is only one wing by which the academy flies, says Jimi Adesina. The other is the duty of scholars to act ethically and responsibly.
Why Do Some Stand, and Others Sit, When Facing a Moral Challenge
Moral rebels clearly have particular characteristics that enable them to stand up for what’s right. But what about the rest of us? Are we doomed to be the silent bystanders who meekly stand by and don’t dare call out bad behavior?
Making Sense of Data in the 2019 General Election
Statistics are not the final objective answer to things. They can be interpreted in lots of different ways, even when none of those ways is wrong per se. That opens up a space for public debate, which is good news, but it also opens up a space where statistics can either be lauded as the truth (when they are not), or dismissed out of hand as ‘biased’.
